@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] When it comes to explaining my continued reluctance to get the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine to those who have no issue with it, it’s like we’re on a different plain, nay planet, altogether. Where I see the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A glance at most reports into the levels of crime and violence in Colombia shows that the country has gradually been getting safer since the turn of the millennium. The headline-grabbing one — and the easiest...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Strange as this may seem considering my current less-than-robust financial situation and lack of a steady income, but I have become the chief moneylender for one barrio friend over the last number of years. It...
@wwaycorrigan With the not-quite-post-pandemic «new normal» taking shape, IQuiz «The Bogotá Pub Quiz», Colombia’s favourite (pending independent verification) trivia night made a long-awaited live return. Cervecería Gigante, an old acquaintance but now with a shiny...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In my younger, more foolish and impressionable days when money was easier to come by, I had a tendency to impulsively buy clothes and footwear, then shortly afterwards realise I didn’t really like them....
@wwaycorrigan There’s a saying amongst some cynical folk — so you can, of course, exclude Wrong Way — that Colombia would be a beautiful country but for its ubiquitous rubbish. In middle-to-low-income countries, dealing with litter is often well down the list of...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Well, it may have taken 19 months, but I finally managed to swap the Bogotá beat for some pastoral peace, of sorts. (I’m discounting, due to their brevity, this year’s day escapes on foot to Cota and La Calera as well as a bike […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Earlier this month, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported that accidents at London Tube stations have increased because some passengers are too afraid to hold onto the escalator handrails. This is apparently...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Be it for good or for bad, nothing lasts forever. So I shouldn’t be too surprised that this day has come. In fact, in my soberer, self-critical moments I’ve realised that it could be a positive...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to/watch on YouTube an audio version of this blog entry here.] After almost ten years based in Bogotá, one might have thought that I’d be fluent in Spanish by now. The fact is, I speak the dominant language here mostly in social settings, where...
